Definition of quadrat

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Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..

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Quadrate :: Quadrate (v. t.) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing..
Quadratic :: Quadratic (a.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square..
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas..
Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures..
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) The quadrate bone.
Octant :: Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees..
Quartile :: Quartile (n.) Same as Quadrate.
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
Conquadrate :: Conquadrate (v. t.) To bring into a square.
Biquadratic :: Biquadratic (n.) A biquadrate.
Quadrating :: Quadrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quadrat.
Reglet :: Reglet (n.) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like..
Quadratojugal :: Quadratojugal (a.) Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
Biquadratic :: Biquadratic (n.) A biquadratic equation.
Quadrated :: Quadrated (imp. & p. p.) of Quadrat.
Quadratrix :: Quadratrix (n.) A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen..
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) A quadrate; a square.
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6..
Pterygoquadrate :: Pterygoquadrate (a.) Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages..
#NAME? :: -trixes (pl. ) of Quadratri.
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